| improvement | (noun) the act of improving something | - |
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| (noun) a change for the better; progress in development | Synonyms: advance, betterment |
| (noun) a condition superior to an earlier condition | Synonyms: melioration |
| improver | (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, addition |
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| (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, humanitarian |
| improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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| improvisation | (noun) an unplanned expedient | Synonyms: temporary expedient |
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| (noun) a performance given extempore without planning or preparation | Synonyms: extemporisation, extemporization |
| (noun) a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) | - |
| incontrovertibility | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibleness, positiveness, positivity |
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| incontrovertibleness | (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, positiveness, positivity |
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| innovation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: invention |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, invention |
| innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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| innovator | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| introversion | (noun) (psychology) an introverted disposition; concern with one's own thoughts and feelings | - |
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| (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, intussusception, invagination |
| (noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: invagination |
| introvert | (noun) (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts | - |
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| irremovability | (noun) the quality or state of not being removable. | - |
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| joviality | (noun) a jovial nature | Synonyms: conviviality |
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| (noun) feeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor | Synonyms: jolliness, jollity |
| kilovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to a thousand volts | Synonyms: kV |
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| ladylove | (noun) a woman who is a man's sweetheart | Synonyms: dulcinea |
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| landrover | (noun) a car suitable for traveling over rough terrain | Synonyms: jeep |
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| layover | (noun) a brief stay in the course of a journey | Synonyms: stop, stopover |
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| leftover | (noun) a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists | Synonyms: remnant |
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| leftovers | (noun) food remaining from a previous meal | - |
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| lovage | (noun) stalks eaten like celery or candied like angelica; seeds used for flavoring or pickled like capers | - |
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| (noun) herb native to southern Europe; cultivated for its edible stalks and foliage and seeds | Synonyms: Levisticum officinale |
| lovastatin | (noun) an oral drug (trade name Mevacor) to reduce blood cholesterol levels; used when dietary changes have proved inadequate | Synonyms: Mevacor |
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| love | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love life, lovemaking, making love, sexual love |
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| (noun) any object of warm affection or devotion | Synonyms: passion |
| (noun) a strong positive emotion of regard and affection | - |
| (noun) a deep feeling of sexual desire and attraction | Synonyms: erotic love, sexual love |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, darling, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, sweetheart, sweetie |
| (noun) a score of zero in tennis or squash | - |
| lovebird | (noun) small African parrot noted for showing affection for their mates | - |
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| (noun) small Australian parakeet usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors | Synonyms: budgereegah, budgerigar, budgerygah, budgie, grass parakeet, Melopsittacus undulatus, shell parakeet |
| loveliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, comeliness, fairness |
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| lovely | (noun) a very pretty girl who works as a photographer's model | Synonyms: cover girl, pin-up |
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| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| lover | (noun) a person who loves someone or is loved by someone | - |
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| (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, devotee, fan |
| (noun) a significant other to whom you are not related by marriage | - |
| loveseat | (noun) small sofa that seats two people | Synonyms: love seat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis |
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| lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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| lovingness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: affectionateness, fondness, warmth |
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| (noun) a loving feeling | Synonyms: caring |
| makeover | (noun) an overall beauty treatment (involving a person's hair style and cosmetics and clothing) intended to change or improve a person's appearance | - |
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| (noun) a complete reconstruction and renovation of something | - |
| mangrove | (noun) a tropical tree or shrub bearing fruit that germinates while still on the tree and having numerous prop roots that eventually form an impenetrable mass and are important in land building | Synonyms: Rhizophora mangle |
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| microvolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one millionth of a volt | - |
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| misgovernment | (noun) government that is inefficient or dishonest | Synonyms: misrule |
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| movability | (noun) the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: movableness |
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| movable | (noun) personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) | Synonyms: chattel, personal chattel |
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| movableness | (noun) the quality of being movable; capable of being moved or rearranged | Synonyms: movability |
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| move | (noun) the act of deciding to do something | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing your residence or place of business | Synonyms: relocation |
| (noun) (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game | - |
| (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, movement |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, movement |
| movement | (noun) a change of position that does not entail a change of location | Synonyms: motility, motion, move |
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| (noun) the act of changing the location of something | - |
| (noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, effort |
| (noun) the act of changing location from one place to another | Synonyms: motion, move |
| (noun) the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock) | - |
| (noun) a general tendency to change (as of opinion) | Synonyms: drift, trend |
| (noun) a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata | - |
| (noun) a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something | Synonyms: motion |
| (noun) a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals | Synonyms: front, social movement |
| (noun) an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object | Synonyms: apparent motion, apparent movement, motion |
| (noun) a euphemism for defecation | Synonyms: bm, bowel movement |
| mover | (noun) a company that moves the possessions of a family or business from one site to another | Synonyms: moving company, public mover, removal company, removal firm |
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| (noun) someone who moves | - |
| (noun) (parliamentary procedure) someone who makes a formal motion | Synonyms: proposer |
| (noun) workman employed by a moving company | - |
| movie | (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture, picture show |
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| moviegoer | (noun) someone who goes to see movies | Synonyms: motion-picture fan |
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| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| mucoviscidosis | (noun) the most common hereditary disease; the child's lungs and intestines and pancreas become clogged with thick mucus; caused by defect in a single gene; no cure is known | Synonyms: CF, cystic fibrosis, fibrocystic disease of the pancreas, pancreatic fibrosis |
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| muscovite | (noun) a colorless or pale brown mica with potassium | - |
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| myxovirus | (noun) any of a group of RNA viruses including those that cause influenza and mumps | - |
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| nanovolt | (noun) a unit of potential equal to one billionth of a volt | - |
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| nova | (noun) a star that ejects some of its material in the form of a cloud and becomes more luminous in the process | - |
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| novation | (noun) (law) the replacement of one obligation by another by mutual agreement of both parties; usually the replacement of one of the original parties to a contract with the consent of the remaining party | - |
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| novel | (noun) a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction | - |
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| (noun) an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story | - |
| novelette | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novella |
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| novelisation | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelization |
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| novelist | (noun) one who writes novels | - |
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| novelization | (noun) converting something into the form of a novel | Synonyms: novelisation |
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| novella | (noun) a short novel | Synonyms: novelette |
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| novelty | (noun) cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing | Synonyms: bangle, bauble, fallal, gaud, gewgaw, trinket |
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| (noun) a small inexpensive mass-produced article | Synonyms: knickknack |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel | Synonyms: freshness |
| (noun) originality by virtue of being new and surprising | Synonyms: freshness |
| novena | (noun) a Roman Catholic devotion consisting of prayers on nine consecutive days | - |
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| novice | (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro |
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| (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novitiate |
| noviciate | (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: novitiate |
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| novillada | (noun) a bullfight in which the bulls are less than four years old | - |
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| novillero | (noun) a bullfighter who is required to fight bulls less than four years of age | - |
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| novitiate | (noun) someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows | Synonyms: novice |
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| (noun) the period during which you are a novice (especially in a religious order) | Synonyms: noviciate |
| novobiocin | (noun) an antibiotic obtained from an actinomycete and used to treat infections by Gram-positive bacteria | - |
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| novocaine | (noun) procaine administered as a hydrochloride (trade name Novocain) | Synonyms: Novocain, procaine hydrochloride |
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| oilstove | (noun) heater that burns oil (as kerosine) for heating or cooking | Synonyms: kerosene heater, kerosine heater, oil heater |
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| orthomyxovirus | (noun) a group of viruses including those causing influenza | - |
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| oval | (noun) a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it | Synonyms: ellipse |
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| ovalbumin | (noun) the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water | Synonyms: albumen, egg white, white |
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| ovariectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both ovaries | Synonyms: oophorectomy |
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| ovaritis | (noun) inflammation of the ovaries | - |
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| ovary | (noun) (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone | - |
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| (noun) the organ that bears the ovules of a flower | - |
| ovation | (noun) enthusiastic recognition (especially one accompanied by loud applause) | Synonyms: standing ovation |
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| oven | (noun) kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting | - |
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| ovenbird | (noun) American warbler; builds a dome-shaped nest on the ground | Synonyms: Seiurus aurocapillus |
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| (noun) small brownish South American birds that build oven-shaped clay nests | - |
| ovenware | (noun) heat-resistant dishware in which food can be cooked as well as served | - |
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| over | (noun) (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch | - |
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| overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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| (noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
| overachievement | (noun) better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests) | - |
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| overachiever | (noun) a student who attains higher standards than the IQ indicated | - |
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| overacting | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: hamming |
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| overactivity | (noun) excessive activity | - |
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| overage | (noun) a surplus or excess of money or merchandise that is actually on hand and that exceeds expectations | - |
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| overall | (noun) (usually plural) work clothing consisting of denim trousers (usually with a bib and shoulder straps) | - |
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| (noun) a loose protective coverall or smock worn over ordinary clothing for dirty work | Synonyms: boilers suit, boilersuit |
| overanxiety | (noun) excessive anxiety | - |
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| overappraisal | (noun) an appraisal that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation |
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| overbearingness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, imperiousness |
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| overbid | (noun) a bid that is higher than preceding bids | - |
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| (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overcall |
| overbite | (noun) (dentistry) malocclusion in which the upper teeth extend abnormally far over the lower teeth | - |
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| overburden | (noun) an excessive burden | Synonyms: overload |
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| (noun) the surface soil that must be moved away to get at coal seams and mineral deposits | - |
| overcall | (noun) (bridge) a bid that is higher than your opponent's bid (especially when your partner has not bid at all and your bid exceeds the value of your hand) | Synonyms: overbid |
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| overcapitalisation | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalization |
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| overcapitalization | (noun) (business) too much capitalization (the sale of more stock than the business warrants) | Synonyms: overcapitalisation |
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| overcast | (noun) a cast that falls beyond the intended spot | - |
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| (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcasting |
| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, cloudiness |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: cloudiness |
| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| overcharge | (noun) a price that is too high | - |
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| overclothes | (noun) clothing for use outdoors | Synonyms: outerwear |
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| overcoat | (noun) a heavy coat worn over clothes in winter | Synonyms: greatcoat, topcoat |
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| (noun) an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | Synonyms: overcoating |
| overcoating | (noun) an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | Synonyms: overcoat |
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| overcomer | (noun) someone who overcomes and establishes ascendancy and control by force or persuasion | Synonyms: subduer, surmounter |
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| overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |